Baby-gate.



G. HEIDT.

BABY GATE APPLICTIN FILED DBO. 30, 1908. .y 942,067. Patented Dec. 7.1909.

f' f@ iiiI l W I GRAYSON HEIDT, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

BABY-GATE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Dee. a, 1909.

Application led December 30, 1908. Serial No. 470,058.

To all whom t may concern:

' Be it known that I, GrRAYsoN HEIDT, a citizen of the United States,residing at New York city, in the borough of Manhattan, county and Stateof New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements inBaby-Gates, of which thefollowing is a clear, full, and exactdescription.

The object of this invention is to provide a baby gate, for doors andstairways, which can be readily adjusted to varying widths of openings.

A second object is to provide suoli a gate that it may be readilyadjusted in position where the adjoining wall is of uneven contour.

To accomplish the first above set forth object, I provide two adjustmentmeans, one which will approximate the width 0fA any usual opening and asecond which will force the sides of the approximated gate into intimatecontact with the sides of the opening.

To accomplish the second object, I provide the sides of the felice withslight freedom of movement so that they may be slightly rocked intovertical or slanting direction to enable one end to come on one side ofa vertical line or on the other according to the configuration of thewall.

Other objects and advantages will be in part obvious and in part pointedout hereinafter.

With these and other ends in view, this invention, accordingly consistsin the features of construction combination of parts and arrangement ofelements hereinafter more explicitly set forth as an exempliication ofthe underlying principles involved in the invention.

In order that this invention may be more fully understood and be madecomprehensible to others skilled in its relating arts, drawingsillustrating a convenient means for carrying out the same are appendedas a part of this specification, and while the controlling princi le ofthe invention may be otherwise applied by modifications falling withinthe scope of the claims, the hereinafter disclosed embodiment is thatwhich will ordinarily be preferable to employ in practice and isregarded as representing substantial improvements over the many obviousor implied variations of the same.

In the drawings, Figure l is-an elevation of a fence made according tothis invention in place between two straight vertical side walls. Fig. 2is a viewV of the same in place where one of the walls is of unevenconformation. Fig. 3 is a detail on line' 3 3 Fig. 2. Fig. 4 is asection on line 4 4 Fig. 3. Fig. 5 is a fragmentary view of one of thecorners of the fence partly broken away and Fig. 6 is an end view of thecorner shown in Fig. 5.

In the drawings the fence is shown as composed offa main panel havinghorizontal members l, each carrying across its outer surface a dovetailspline 2. Vertical rods 3 onnect the top and bottom horizontal memers.

Preferably two auxiliary frames are provided, consisting of verticalmembers 4 closely connected by pins 5 at top and bottom with horizontalslides 6 sliding on the dovetail splines. The horizontal slides 6 areprovided with a, series of holes 7 for the reception of the pins 5.

At the center of each vertical member 4 of the auxiliary frame I recessthe same as shown in Fig. 4 to receive a ball 8 at the end of a rod 9,threaded at its free end as shown and passing through the vertical rodsof the main panel. Aplate l0 serves to secure the ball 8 in place. Aturn buckle ll joins the free threaded ends of the rods 9 at the centerof the panel.

In using the gate one first places the pins 5 in that hole 7 which willcause the ends 0f the slides 6 to almost touch the sides of the openingwhen the turn buckle has brought the rods inward to a substantialextent. Then the turn buckle is rotated to extend the rods and force theends of the slides into contact with material pressure against the sidesof the openings.

If one side of the opening be provided with a base board 20 as shown inFig. 2 the vertical member of the auxiliary frame will be canted due tothe loose pin connection as shown in that figure, so that the lowerslide will strike the base board and the upper slide the wall.

In carrying out this invention, details of construction may be variedfrom those shown, and yet the essence of the invention j be retained;some parts might be employed without others, and new features thereofmight be combined with elements old in the art in diverse ways, althoughthe herein described type is regarded as embodying substantialimprovements over such modifications.

As many changes could be made in the above construction, and manyapparently widely dierent embodiments of the ini'en tion could be madewithout departing i' rom the scope thereof, it is intended that allmatter contained in the above description or shown in the accompanyingdrawings shall be interpreted in an illustrative and not in a limitingsense.

It is furthermore desired to be understood that the language used in thefollowing claims is intended to cover all the generic and specificfeatures of the invention herein described, and all statements of thescope of the invention which as a matter of language might be said tofall therebetween.

l claim as my invention 1. A baby gate comprising a main panel, anauxiliary frame at the side thereof and means for expanding and holdingin expanded condition the gate, slidable horizontal slides for theframe, a vertical member therefor and adjustment means adapted to occupydifferent positions in the horizontal slides with relation to thevertical member, whereby one size of gate and the limited motion of theexpanding means may be used Y for closing openings of varying width.

2. A baby gate comprising a main panel, an auxiliary clamping sidemember movable toward and away from main panel, a clamping means adaptedto press said side into position against the walls, said side being freeto take a position at right angles or slant-wise with relation to themain panel.

3. A baby gate comprising a main panel, a clamping member having avertical side, and horizontal slides on said main panel, a loose jointwhere the side and slides join, adapted to permit the side to take adiil'erent angle from a right angle with said slides, an expansion rodbearing against the, approximate center of the vertical side, andpivotally secured thereto, and means for permitting the extension of therod and side.

4. A baby gate comprising a main panel, a clamping member having avertical side, and horizontal slides on said main panel,- a loose jointwhere the side and slides join, an expansion rod bearing against theapproximate center of the vertical side and means for permitting theextension of the rod and side, in combination with means for changingthe position of said loose joints.

Signed at Atlanta Georgia this 23rd day of December 1908.

GRAYSON HlClD'l. VVitnesses L. DALnY, JOHN Hnin'r.

